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Milky Way

On Election Night, Stare Into the Abyss

November 5, 2024

Space-telescope image of a star cluster, shown inside a large nebula

For How Much Longer Can Life Continue on This Troubled Planet?

October 3, 2024

A shadowy Earth against a starscape

Look at What Happens When Two Galaxies Collide

August 17, 2022

A pair of sparkling galaxies in the beginning stages of merging together

Seriously, What’s Making All These Mysterious Space Signals?

July 15, 2022

A GIF that shows several circles pulsing against the darkness of outer space, with a few stars sprinkled in

Behold, the Bottomless Pit Holding Everything Together

May 12, 2022

The first-ever picture of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way

A Plot Twist in the Milky Way

March 6, 2022

An illustration of two very bright stars, glowing blue, orbiting 1,000 light-years from Earth

Night Sky

January 30, 2022

A geometrical shape cut out of a light grey background showing a starry night sky

The 70-Year-Old Mystery of Two Galactic Mushroom Clouds

Charlie Wood and Quanta Magazine

January 9, 2021

An X-ray view of the entire sky, in which giant bubbles are clearly visible extending above and below the plane of the Milky Way galaxy

The Rogue Planets That Wander the Galaxy Alone

October 29, 2020

A lone planet floats across the starry sky

The Milky Way Has Giant Bubbles at Its Center

September 21, 2019

The Milky Way curves over the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa

The Loneliest Stars in the Galaxy

May 22, 2019

A computer rendering of a spiral galaxy like the Milky Way taking shape